Ethical Concerns of Genetics
Ethical Concerns of Classical Breeding and" You can stop the splitting of an atom; you can stop visiting the moon; you can stop using aerosols; you may even decide not to kill an entire population by the use of a few bombs, but you cannot recall a new form of life." - Erwin Chargoff Imagine a world free of disease, where everyone is healthy and the average life span is 100+ years. To most people that would be a dream come true. According to Biotech companies that are doing research in the field of Genetic engineering that is what GE will make of the future. Hard to believe that that could ever happen. Well it is a possibility ,but a very unlikely one to say the least. Erwin Chargoff is considered by some to be the father of modern Microbiology. He also said this about GE, "An irreversible attack on the biosphere is something so unheard-of, so unthinkable to previous generations, that I could only wish that mine had not been guilty of it." He said this in reference to the huge price tag that this kind of engineering carries with it. The companies who are for Genetic engineering, in their defense, say that it is only an extension of Classical or Selective Breeding. This practice has gone on for y
Designer genes are another big issue. This is what happened to the corn we know and eat today. This cross breeding is an attempt to try and get certain characteristics carried on from one generation to the next. This is a true story and shows what can happen in GE is not handled in the correct manner. In conclusion, the human race must be united on this issue because it involves all of mankind not just one or two powerful nations. It is the 'dynamical' or self- organizing system the makes up how the organism as a whole will develop the genes merely tell that system what to do. But while this all sounds fantastic the downside is all mentioned above and could in a way end the world. So in theory you can change anything about any living organism. It may end genetic diseases and help predict who will be more vulnerable to cancer and other incurable diseases. This is basically having genes that will give a plant or animal certain traits like blonde hair and blue eyes or purple leaves with a blue stem. They claim they are speeding up the evolutionary process, but if you speed that up you must speed the entire world up because that is the only way to ensure that the biosphere we live in will be at an equilibrium. To create this kind of almost uniform society where everyone is "perfect" is a very scary thought. It has a fairly high success rate but it is not at all guaranteed to work. Hopefully someday we as a species can put aside our petty differences and unite as one and realize what we can do together that we couldn't do as 100's of separate nations and billions of different people not speaking out in one voice. Somehow I think that we need a union of all nations to join together and regulate this affair.
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